ONE DAY DURING THE SUMMER.....I was over at the nieghbors house reloading bullets and smoking pot :-).....There was no room over at my house and I had split the cost of the reloading equipment with my buddy McQ :-(
so.......We were expecting Lou Paleremo to come over and help McQ's Dad weld up the fueselage of an airplane they were building in the same basement.......so we were smoking pot over by a little basement window that we'd stuck a small fan up in.....and we had a little bowl of homemade black powder set there so we could touch it off with a match and stink the place up if LOU showed :-I
well pretty soon we heard somebody come in.....but it wasn't Mr. Paleremo......It was McQ's brother David....back from Alfred college.........so He wanted to smoke pot to......but I had to go do some chores at my house so I left :-I
About 15 minutes later I was taking the house garbage out to burn (back when we had burning barrels)....when I hear fireworks going of over at McQ's......AND THEN A LOT OF FIREWORKS.......matter of fact.......IT SOUNDED LIKE ALL THE FIREWORKS THAT WERE ON THE TRAIN TABLE (just across from the reloading room that had an open keg of 700X sitting on the bench )....WERE GOING OFF INSIDE McKeowns House :-(
AND HALF OF THOSE WERE MINE TOO :-O
Pretty soon DOUGY AND DAVE BOTH come running over to my house looking pretty smoky and SCARED ........and fireworks are STILL GOING OFF.
BREATHLESSS DOUGY DEMANDS "WE NEED EVERY FAN YOU CAN FIND.....QUICK"
well to shoten the story up a bit....just after I had left....Dave and Dougy smoked a bowl....but had moved that little bowl of black powder over to the train table.......AND LOU PALEWREMO SHOWED UP......so Dougy tossed a match into that little bowl of homemade coaurse morat poweder and sparks went up and landed all over the firecrackers whistler rockests aND ASSORTED OTHER STUFF :-o
LOU NEVER DID GO INSIDE......as soon as the fireworks started going off....HE VAMOOSED :-)
AND BY THE TIME I GOT OVER THERE WITH SOME WINDOW FANS........the fireworks had stopped......but McQ's basement was flooded with smoke and his parents would be home any time now......I left the fans.....went back to my house.....grabbed a rifle and went woodchuck hunting :-I
I STAYED GONE A GOOD LONG TIME TOO :-)
IT WAS A FUCKING MIRACLE A JUMPING JACK OR FIRECRACKER OR BOTTLE ROCKET DIDN'T FLIP INTO THAT KEG O 700X Shotgun/Pistol Powder
